Alberic Crescitelli was born on June 30, 1863, the fourth of ten children, in Altavilla Irpina in the province of Avellino and the diocese of Benevento. His father was named Beniamino, a pharmacist in the village, and his mother ...
Arnold Janssen was born on November 5, 1837 in Goch, a small town in Lower Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As the second of ten brothers, he learned from his father to be a man of deep piety. He was ordained a priest on August 15, 1861 ...
